How to Sound Good on Acoustic (for electric guitarists) 

Yes, please.

I made that leap and it was a long, humbling experience. So much to learn.

YES!!! 👍👍👍👍

Simon is such an incredible songwriter . To write even one at that standard would be incredible ! Hard to pick 'favourites' . I do like 'Richard Corey' , 'Blessed' , ' A Most Peculiar Man' , ' So Long FLW' , 'Have a Good Time' ... inter alia - too many !!

Babe wake up deez nutz r on ur chin

The tone is so sweet!

Not this Chica 😉 I love the validation 😁

I have a dreadnought that I will not trade for the world! And I play it somewhere in between a lap steel and perpendicular to the ground. It really is sideways because I just can't get my arm around the sucker! But it's a cedar top and Rosewood back and sides. A beaut. I have a friend that has got an 814 CE and he bought a Lowden last year. I see him on a semi regular basis but we play music together when we go to the mountains with a group of friends. He keeps looking at me going, man, I keep buying these guitars... and yours still sounds better!😅 I honestly think it's the cedar top and the Dreadnought. Having said all of that, the Eastman is sweet!!

Fire away with your thoughts on this subject it’ll most likely end up in the vid!

@@EricHaugenGuitar Well, first learn multiple ways to mute unneeded strings. Then, learn more ways to mute unneeded strings. Ha!

@@EricHaugenGuitar Next, learn that thirds need to be consciously managed when playing chords.

Triads are your friends, especially in an ensemble situation where another musician, e.g. the bass player, will take care of things like root notes for you.

Take it easy - a softer touch on electric strings goes a long way compared with acoustic.

Marty already did it! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-g16p5Wcw5dc.htmlsi=6vC1RKZg4CCOqCsb

@@EricHaugenGuitar ..thanks Eric, he's good sounds close enough but he's not like you...There's no tab and you're the best....I'm gonna keep trying to look for those tabs tho.. It was one of my favorite 90s tunes and I use to live in Minnesota during that time,fond memories..Cheers:)

Martin retro nickel 11s - still kinda bright for me

That has been my decade long struggle. Especially as a finger picker.

@@robbieg5538I just made that exact comment, right there with you

Did you watch the video?

@@fixedgear37 I wrote my comment before the final part because that was pretty much the first thought I had when I read the title.

Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. You are definitely the outlier here, man...

💯 I'm in love. Have been thinking about TrueFire for a while. Going to pull the trigger. Eric, you had me at Ohh La La, then Only Living Boy sealed it. I've never played much Croce, but that was an excellent lesson. And "The capo is not a crutch" LOL!! When I play with others it just adds an extra voicing to put on a capo and have at. (I will transpose the chords on the fly. Kinda fun! Sometimes a challenge!) Great job! Instant fan 💙💙

Thanks for being here for the whole journey!

Also, check out Moby Grape's song '8:05' for similar concepts that you teach in this lesson. Great song.

If up voting is a thing here, yes, please!! It took me piecing three videos to get Here Comes The Sun!

I got it on Etsy like 15 years ago!

Thanks Clive!

Ooooooh I’m so curious what did you find to be the biggest difference (now I’m just researching for the next vid)

@@EricHaugenGuitar On acoustic it's easier to let chords ring, playing in a big, open "hootenanny" style. On electric, that kind of playing is a mess. Palm muting is much more important. Also, when playing rhythm on acoustic it's normal to play the whole chord, five or six string version. On electric it's often advisable to limit the chord into just three of four notes because they usually play in a band setting. Also also, the acoustic guitarist gets used to filling up the rhythm part with strumming or picking. The electric guitarist often plays one chord per measure -- think that Steve Cropper chop on "Green Onions". Also also also, two- or three-finger power chords just aren't a thing on acoustic. Nor is the fast, muted two-string metal eighth-note downstroke rhythm (there's probably a name for that). And using effects like delay and distortion not to mention amplifiers is a whole new world to an acoustic player. (Obviously you can do all these electric styles on an acoustic, but it's also obviously not going to be the same. So most "acoustic only" players never learn them.) And all that doesn't even take into account the differences between the two instruments in terms of average string gauge or action or neck width or scale length or even weight. It's not learning how to play all over again, but it's learning a lot of new stuff and unlearning a lot of old stuff. More than you asked for, right?

@jrpipik these are all excellent points! You’ll get credit when I reference them in the vid ✔️✔️

@@EricHaugenGuitar Give me another half hour and I'll write the video for you!